EPTAll of the topics about this seem to be pretty old so I was just wondering if people's opinions are still the same. Do you guys play with mouse acceleration on or off and do you think it's better?
Mouse Acceleration?
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Oceanic
United States122 Posts
All of the topics about this seem to be pretty old so I was just wondering if people's opinions are still the same. Do you guys play with mouse acceleration on or off and do you think it's better? | ||
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Odds
Canada1188 Posts
Do yourself a favor, turn it off. | ||
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theconartist
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GoDannY
Germany442 Posts
 Well if you ask me, I dont see much of a difference. Currently I am using a 24" widescreen and there is, regarding my very short test on that, definately a noticable difference between acceleration on and off. My advise - turning it off dont makes you gosu - give it a shot and if you feel comfortable - use it. If not - dont touch a running system. | ||
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cartoon]x
United States606 Posts
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Macavenger
United States1132 Posts
Once recently I attempted to play Starcraft on another computer that had mouse acceleration on (not thinking about that at first). I noticed a problem when splitting workers - when mousing to the mineral field after selecting them, my cursor went flying off that end of the screen and scrolled it past them.  Took like 5 seconds to get mining started, and within about 10 after that it occurred to me that acceleration was the problem. I'd say once you get used to having it off, there's no going back. | ||
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Wr3k
Canada2533 Posts
You know that whole "Pick up the mouse and move it over because its rammed up against the side of the keyboard/edge of desk" thing? Turning mouse acceleration off fixes that. | ||
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machinus
United States291 Posts
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Puosu
7012 Posts
There has also been a million threads about this recently so please just search. I believe most sc pros play with a relatively low mouse sensitivity. Nah, a year or so ago when there was that chinese tournament with Korean progamers invited I paid special attention in the first person view live vods when they set up their mouse settings, all of them used 11/11 windows control panel. (which is terrible because it causes the mouse to skip pixels, always go for 6/11) RTS games don't usually need that much accuracy (especially low res SC1) so its okay this way but lower speed would probably be better if you're starting just now. | ||
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Beardfish
United States525 Posts
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hoborg
United States430 Posts
I think I managed to turn all mouse acceleration off on my OS (XP). I have Pointer Precision off, and mouse sensitivity set to the middle (6/11). To test, I can move my mouse in circles and all around the place, and still come back to the same spot on the desktop. HOWEVER, in Starcraft II it's totally different - if I move my mouse in a steady circle, the cursor gradually drifts off to the upper-left corner of the screen. I tried out that SCII Reflex map, and I had to keep picking my mouse up off the pad a million times to re-center. Brood War doesn't have this problem at all. Is there some setting in SC2 with regards to mouse acceleration? I played around with the sensitivity and whatever the more-accurate-mouse setting is, but neither seemed to help. I use a Razer Salmosa, BTW. | ||
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-HellZerg-
United States409 Posts
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Chaoz
United States507 Posts
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hellokitty[hk]
United States1309 Posts
I've had acceleration on all of computer life and just recently bothered to disable it. I noticed no difference in my playing ability. You lie noob. | ||
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kiritaku
10 Posts
after practicing the map for a couple hours a day for a week with acceleration on, we tried with it off, and while it was ugly for a little bit, within 45 minutes, we were doing significantly better then we had ever done before. so basically, 45 mintues of training without acceleration was more effective then a lifetime of gaming with acceleration... do your self a favor, get a gaming quality mouse, a slippery mousepad, turn sensitivity up and acceleration off. just a little aside, it seems in general gamers don't like acceleration, fpsers like low sensitivity, and rtsers like high sensitivity. of course i have one friend that insists trackball is the way to go... so go figure | ||
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Wr3k
Canada2533 Posts
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prodiG
Canada2016 Posts
o disable it forever, follow these steps: start > run > regedit > HKEY_CURRENT_USER > Control Panel > Mouse select "SmoothMouseXCurve" and "SmoothMouseYCurve" and delete them both then control panel > mouse and uncheck the "Enhance pointer precision" box. I've played quake for like four years now and I do this on every machine I image/own EDIT: For the record, playing with acceleration on is a terrible, terrible idea. Anyone who tells you otherwise is one of: a) a complete noob b) never played something that isn't rts c) hasn't changed gear since windows xp came out d) troll e) all of the above | ||
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-HellZerg-
United States409 Posts
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Zlasher
United States9129 Posts
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